Guest Blogger: Vince Antonucci I grew up in a verbally abusive home. My father’s violent tirades were like heart-seeking missiles. And if my father, someone who was obligated to love me, couldn’t love me—if he couldn’t find anything special in me, I reasoned I must be defective. I needed a
We bloggers often pour a significant amount of time and energy into creating content. So of course we want that content to be presented in a visually appealing way. Any decent chef will tell you, presentation matters. The problem is unless you’re a tech geek or a graphic artist, or
One of the great things about having worked in publishing for fifteen years is that I have a lot of friends in the industry. I’d like to use my access to some of these folks for your benefit by providing some interviews with them. It occurred to me that I
My mom and dad did something to me as an infant that stayed with me for the rest of my life. Now before you go thinking it was something truly awful, I’ll just tell you: they misspelled my middle name. My middle name is Randell. When my fiancée at the
I’m very pleased to be guest posting at literary agent Chip MacGregor’s blog today. The title of the post is “How to Be a Christian Author without Embarrassing God.” Here’s how it starts: Tony Campolo wrote a book a while back titled Following Jesus without Embarrassing God. In it Campolo challenged Christians
I wanted to bring you up to speed on a few things and then just for fun share some videos that have caught my attention lately. Goings-On In terms of goings-on, here and there I’ll be cutting back to one post a week so I have time to work on
At writers conferences I often receive questions like these: Will publishers be interested in my book if it’s already been self-published? (Answer: Yes, as long as the self-published version sold well.) I need to be published to get an agent; I need an agent to get published. What gives?
I’m reading Bob Goff’s book, Love Does. It’s a good book, I recommend it. I just finished a chapter in which Goff relates how awful he was as a Little League baseball player. He was so bad that everybody groaned when he went up to bat. Their only hope was
Recently I tried removing a screw using the wrong kind of screwdriver. The project I was working on was in the house, and the right kind of screwdriver was in the garage. I didn’t want to take the time to walk there, so I struggled until finally giving up. Once
Last week I asked, “Which book should I write?” and received a slew of great responses. Thank you! Interestingly, the book concept that rose to the top was that of how to come up with a book concept! The irony is not lost on me. I thought I would start
Recently it was “Be your favorite storybook character” day at my son’s school. Last night at dinner we talked about how best to embody Pete from Pete the Cat. Not one for makeup, my son opted for drawing a picture of Pete and pinning him to the canvas of a
Every time I have taken a risk to engage this blog’s community, I have been pleased with the results. It always feels like leaping from a high dive and hoping for the best, but I’m doing that again today. So here’s my question for you: Which book should I write?